Tuesday Headlines, News and Notes: Is Three on Three the Future of OT?

The overtime period featured an unheard of three penalty calls and resulting power plays. The three on three play for 58 seconds was great with plenty of open ice. With all this, no goals were scored.

It took a skills competition to decide the game but the brief period of three on three did offer hope for the potential future when after five minutes of four on four in overtime, three on three play would offer a better ending than a shootout.

Hopefully, at some point, after enough Research and Development Camps, the NHL powers that be will agree.

Last week, Don Cherry ranted about the new crackdown by Brendan Shanahan and went off on folks wanting to ban fighting and included Stu Grimson in the list. Stu joined Twitter and replied that he had never said what he was acused of saying and went on XM radio later in the day to respond further.

Pierre-Marc Bouchard's appeal of his two game suspension went nowhere with the commissioner. Bouchard's agent Allan Walsh is not happy. From @TSNBobMcKenzie: This P-M Bouchard appeal of his suspension is interesting because it hilights an issue in coming CBA negotiations. NHLPA wants independent arbitrator to hear disciplinary appeals (like in baseball), not the commissioner. NHL has zero appetite for that.

Ryan Smyth has heard nothing from Shanny for his elbow to the head of Chris Kunitz late in Sunday's Oilers-Pens game. They don't play again until Thursday, so he may not be out of the woods yet.

Coming to an arena near you is a song by a band called Locksley called "The Whip." Boomer Gordon of NHL Home Ice was complaining that Toronto was using it for their goal song and pointed out that Dallas was using it too. Hopefully, we will not hear it at Bridgestone Arena.

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